Pebbles famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Oh it's a pebble... But it's a really nice pebble Dad thanks.
-- Angie Sage -
My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
-- Beatrice Wood -
I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.
-- Cheryl Strayed -
Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.
-- Dalai Lama -
Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it.
-- Dean Young -
Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.
-- Frederick Sommer -
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
-- H. Emilie Cady -
As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.
-- Jean Pigozzi -
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
-- Jean Rostand -
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?
-- John Milton -
Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.
-- Josef Albers -
We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder -
Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.
-- Learned Hand -
Whenever you surrender the most precious areas of your life to GOD, it's like trading in a pile of worthless pebbles for a truckload of priceless jewels.
-- Leslie Ludy -
Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing
-- Natalie -
The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.
-- Nathaniel Parker Willis -
At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.
-- Naz?m Hikmet -
Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.
-- Peter J. Daniels -
The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience.
-- R. G. LeTourneau -
A spa hotel? It's like a normal hotel, only in reception there's a picture of a pebble.
-- Rhod Gilbert -
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll -
The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.
-- Robert Wise -
I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.
-- Sophie Jordan -
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
-- Thomas Browne -
I want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.
-- Tim Cook -
On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white, round, polish'd pebbles spread.
-- Tobias Smollett -
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
-- Victor Hugo -
There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.
-- William Butler Yeats -
One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles of earthly streams.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne -
Sometimes the Goliath in front of me looks too big & impossible to defeat. Then, God puts his hands on my shoulder, hands me 3 pebbles & a sling shot and I know it'll be okay.
-- Mark Oliver -
Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.
-- Fritz Leiber
